| Sept 12, 1979
Dear Don –
Jenny Joseph may have a reading at Colby
if she doesn’t mind a rather skimpy honorarium
of $50. The date and time: September 27 at
7:30 PM. I assume that the place will be
Alumnae lounge, where you read. I will let you
know soon.
I enclose a copy of “The Thin Man” – hope
you like it. I hope “Hair on Television” will
be ready soon.
More about the Joseph reading right away.
Please let me know if $50 is OK. Perhaps
I could get more if I were in charge
of reading this year, but I’m not, and $50
seems to be the limit.
Hello to Jane – Love,
Wes
THE THIN MAN
–Inside every fat man is a thin man trying to get out.
Once in a mirror
as it folded hair
back from its face
he discovered his eyes
lonely, yearning.
This was the beginning
of his life
inside the body,
of standing deep in the legs
of it,
held
in its elbowless arms.
And when it walked
he walked,
and when it slept
he dreamed of drowning
under its lakes
of skin.
Oh the thin man
trying to get out
learned of its great
locked breasts
its seamless chin,
the dead ends
of its hands.
And oh the heavy body
took him
to tables
of food,
and took him down
into the groaning
carnal bed.
The pitiless body took him
to a mirror
which showed
the eyes
in a face
immense and dying,
who he was. |
